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What Were Lockdowners Thinking? A Review of Jeremy Farrar

Jeffrey A. Tucker / August 1, 2021 / Philosophy, Policy, Public Health / 14 minute read

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Every age has generated some fashionable and overriding reason why people cannot be free. Public health is the reason of the moment. In this author’s telling, everything we think we know about the social and political order must conform to his number one priority of pathogen avoidance and suppression, while every other concern (such as freedom itself) should take a back seat.

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The CDC Is a Threat to Science

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 29, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The unscientific nature of this game is summed up in the following realization. The Biden administration is toying with tactics and strategies for disease control that have utterly and completely failed for the 16 months they have been tried. Everwhere in the world! The science as we know it conclusively demonstrates the failure of every bit of the lockdown agenda. And yet here we are, threatened by another round on all sides.

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The Strange Neglect of Natural Immunity

Jayanta Bhattacharya,

Martin Kulldorff / July 28, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 6 minute read

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The ancients understood immunology better than we do. If scientific leaders do not acknowledge immunity from natural infection, public confidence in vaccines and public health institutions will further deteriorate, imposing great harm to the public’s well-being.

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Restricting Freedom Did Not Defeat Covid

John Tamny / July 27, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 5 minute read

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The lockdowns were the cruelest form of elitism, by far. The implication of the lockdowns was that those who had the temerity to have jobs that were destinations—like restaurants and shops—would have to lose them.

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How to Account for the CDC’s New Mask Advisory?

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 27, 2021 / Masks, Policy, Public Health / 7 minute read

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The CDC seems more easily led by op-eds in political newspapers than actual scientific papers on the topic, of which there are many thousands now. The agency wants digestible, clear instructions on what they should be doing. This piece in the Washington Post provided exactly that. Thus did the CDC reverse itself yet again.

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The Lessons of North Sentinel Island: The Ill-Health of Isolation

John Tamny / July 27, 2021 / History, Public Health / 4 minute read

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The North Sentinelese are a very real reminder of how cruelly bankrupt the run-and-hide strategy is as a broad form of virus mitiga

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Stop This Human Sacrifice

Gigi Foster / July 27, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 4 minute read

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It’s the modern analogue of killing virgins in the hope of getting a good harvest.

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Rock Climbers, Skaters, and Risk Assessment

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 19, 2021 / Economics, Public Health / 6 minute read

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We all make our own decisions based on our risk tolerances. Yes, that’s the most workable solution of all. Would that we had seen the merit of this approach back in March 2020 before the world pursued the worst and most destructive policies of virus containment in living memory (or probably ever).

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Coming to Terms with Lockdowns: Trish Wood and Jeffrey Tucker (Podcast)

Brownstone Institute / July 17, 2021 / Philosophy, Public Health / 1 minute of reading

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I was pleased to do this deep dive into lockdown history, ideology, and effects with Trish Wood. It is 3 hours but people tell me that it is very much worth the listening.

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A Short History of the Great Barrington Declaration

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 17, 2021 / History, Policy, Public Health / 8 minute read

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The Great Barrington Declaration changed everything. The negative press backfired. The scientists risked everything to write this Declaration

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Lockdown Ideology Originated in 2006 Under George W. Bush

Jeffrey A. Tucker / July 16, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 11 minute read

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Lockdown might be the new orthodoxy but that doesn’t make it medically sound or morally correct. At least now we know that many great doctors and scholars in 2006 did their best to stop this nightmare from unfolding.

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Lockdowns Fail: They Do Not Control the Virus

Brownstone Institute / July 15, 2021 / Policy, Public Health / 29 minute read

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The use of universal lockdowns in the event of the appearance of a new pathogen has no precedent. It has been a science experiment in real-time, with most of the human population used as lab rats. The question is whether and to what extent lockdowns worked.

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